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Olalani Oluwaseun
Olalani Oluwaseun

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How can I connect my contact form to send mail to my inbox

Hey Developers, recently I design a full website and host it but my contact form is not sending to my email inbox. Anytime a user fill the form and submit it Indicate "error 404". I seriously need more explanation and clarification on this. Thank you in anticipation.

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Bram Sikkens •

Hi
It is very difficult to help you without some code examples. Probably you need to use a php file to send your email

404 means a wrong url. If you are using a PHP file(example.php) you need to submit your form data like this

Make sure that your input fields have a name attribute.

in your php file you can get the data like this
<?php $name = $_GET["name"]; ?>

in your php file you can send the email like this

mail("someone@example.com","My subject",$name);

Hope this helps

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Olalani Oluwaseun •

Whaooo you have just given me a clue of what to do. Thanks boss 👍 really appreciate it